Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
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Variant translation: Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.Jean Cocteau
11) There is a time and place for tact.
And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.Larry Niven
Had Grant been a Congressman one would have been on one’s guard, for one knew the type. One never expected from a Congressman more than good intentions and public spirit. Newspaper-men as a rule had no great respect for the lower House; Senators had less; and Cabinet officers had none at all. Indeed, one day when Adams was pleading with a Cabinet officer for patience and tact in dealing with Representatives, the Secretary impatiently broke out: “You can’t use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!”
Henry Adams
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel (novelist Butler
In very other period of art history, the idea itself –the what – had been primary. Today (1961) the idea matters less than the way it is arrived at; it is the how that makes the work. This word brings us again face to face with the theme and its infinite variations. It is no longer a matter of knowing, of possessing the truth, but of approaching it.. ..knowing that the road is long, knowing that the road does not end, knowing that the road is the end in itself.
Michel Seuphor
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford
Cocteau, Jean
Codd, E. F.
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